One idyllic summer on Cape Cod, Ellie, a talented young musician with the opportunity of a lifetime, is torn between obligation to her family and the chance to realize her dream. Saddled with the care of her five siblings as a result of an alcoholic mother, a breathtakingly irresponsible father and a terrifyingly misguided preacher of a brother, Ellie falls in love with an aspiring young writer, Harper, who dares her to take a chance. As the story propels, the lines between dreams and reality, freedom and repression, twist and turn into a shocking result.